HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081387620
Bassin de Lunga
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Kasempa, Solwezi
Sub-basin area
244,3km²
Upstream area
11 663,4km²
Discharge
84,13m³/s
Mean elev.
1 214m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lunga532 km²
- Bassin de Lunga301 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 178.5 km²73.3% of basin
- 64.9 km²26.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ndesha
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
77.41 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,1°C
Annual rain
1 157mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
222mm/an
PET
1 728mm
AET
910mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
125cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
32%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)